spokanemom
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He does have unexpected setbacks. Today they discovered an abscess in his abdomen. They drained it, and installed a new drain. That caused him a lot of pain, especially when taking deep breaths. He does have some fluid in the bottom of his right lung. About 3 hours later, he spiked a big fever over 104 and needed ice packs. They suspect he has a blockage at the new connection at the bottom of his stomach and he is scheduled for a scope tomorrow to figure that out. They think that is causing his nausea and vomiting (if he attempts to eat anything).
I am posting this from my husband’s room in ICU. His surgery did not go as we had hoped. The margins by both the pancreas and liver were positive. His bifurcation was inside the liver and both sides had cancerous cells. Rather than stop everything, the surgeon chose to respect the entire right lobe, which showed more cancer cells, and hope to resect part of the left node to get a clear margin and then perform th Whipple. Well, each of the 3 resection on the left lobe had cancer cells, so they stopped and did not do the Whipple. My husband will need 4 weeks to recover from the surgery before beginning either chemo or radiation. The surgeon said he is not a candidate for further surgical treatment.
I am devastated. He was in surgery for 16 hours. No tumors other than the 2cm one in the common bile duct were found, only cancer cells. I feel like I have a few weeks to figure out what to do next. He is so strong and healthy and his recovery from a 16 hour surgery has amazed the medical staff.
Please help me determine our next steps. We will have another consult with the oncologist we were referred to. I hope there is a list of questions we can ask him about his experience with cc.
